old computer sounds

At 12:57 AM 10/5/01 -0400, Absurdly Obtuse wrote: This weekend in the cheesy Sunday paper magazine there was a story of an old guy who records the sounds of machines gone by: trains, trucks, saws, etc. Is someone out there making recordings of old computers? I certainly daydreamed about adding sound to an emulator, so you could hear the clunk-clunk of an eight-inch floppy drive... I would guess that the recording requirements might be quite high: some old sounds have some very high, very low or very quiet components. For that matter, video recordings of old computers booting or running a classic program record the elements of *time* and screen characteristics that may be lost in an emulator running at 1000x speed on a PC. - John